This year’s GCSE and A Level exams are CANCELLED, Education Secretary Gavin Williamson confirms

This year’s GCSE and A Level exams are CANCELLED, Education Secretary Gavin Williamson confirms By James Gant For Mailonline Published: 20:06 GMT, 5 January 2021 | Updated: 20:07 GMT, 5 January 2021 GCSE and A-Level exams have been cancelled, Gavin Williamson has confirmed tonight. The education secretary said: ‘The Government position is that we will … Read more

GCSE and A-level exams will be made easier in 2021

GCSEs and A-levels will be easier next year with students given questions in advance and allowed to use study aids during exam after ‘unprecedented disruption’ due to Covid GCSEs and A-Levels in 2021 will be given the topics in advance of their exams  Education Secretary Gavin Williams has vowed not to cancel next year’s exams … Read more

GCSE and A-level exams will be made easier in 2021

GCSEs and A-levels will be easier next year with students given questions in advance and allowed to use study aids during exam after ‘unprecedented disruption’ due to Covid GCSEs and A-Levels in 2021 will be given the topics in advance of their exams  Education Secretary Gavin Williams has vowed not to cancel next year’s exams … Read more

GCSE and A-level pupils will be told what is on their exam papers in advance

GCSE and A-level pupils will be told what is on their exam papers in advance and will be ‘marked more generously’, according to plans expected to be unveiled by the Department for Education Students with an asterisk by their grade should be looked on kindly by colleges  Exam boards will tell schools which subject areas … Read more

GCSE and A-level pupils will be told what is on their exam papers in advance

GCSE and A-level pupils will be told what is on their exam papers in advance and will be ‘marked more generously’, according to plans expected to be unveiled by the Department for Education Students with an asterisk by their grade should be looked on kindly by colleges  Exam boards will tell schools which subject areas … Read more

History GCSE ‘set for BLM revamp’: Pupils may learn about Nazis’ black victims and a Tudor trumpeter

The history GCSE curriculum is set for a Black Lives Matter revamp to teach pupils about the experiences of minorities at key moments in time.  An update could see pupils learn about black victims of the Nazis and a dark-skinned trumpeter who played for Henry VIII.  The Telegraph reported that exam boards have been in discussion with … Read more

History GCSE ‘set for BLM revamp’: Pupils may learn about Nazis’ black victims and a Tudor trumpeter

The history GCSE curriculum is set for a Black Lives Matter revamp to teach pupils about the experiences of minorities at key moments in time.  An update could see pupils learn about black victims of the Nazis and a dark-skinned trumpeter who played for Henry VIII.  The Telegraph reported that exam boards have been in discussion with … Read more

Calls for GCSE and A-level grades to be set regionally this summer because of differing Covid levels

There have been more than 1,000 outbreaks of coronavirus in educational settings since schools reopened in September, the Government’s scientific advisers have suggested. An outbreak or cluster is classed by Public Health England (PHE) as two or more positive cases of Covid-19 related to one setting.  A document released by the Scientific Advisory Group for … Read more

Calls for GCSE and A-level grades to be set regionally this summer because of differing Covid levels

There have been more than 1,000 outbreaks of coronavirus in educational settings since schools reopened in September, the Government’s scientific advisers have suggested. An outbreak or cluster is classed by Public Health England (PHE) as two or more positive cases of Covid-19 related to one setting.  A document released by the Scientific Advisory Group for … Read more

Wales should scrap GCSE exams next summer and award grades on coursework, says exam regulator

Wales should scrap GCSE exams next summer and instead award grades on pupils’ coursework and assessments, a testing regulator has said. Qualifications Wales said A-Level students should continue to be graded as normal, but younger pupils should face a relaxed system. It comes after the summer’s exam season turned into a fiasco as tests were … Read more